Steering binding after turbo install

Rusty · 03-08-2016, 07:28 PM

Have someone sit in the car. Put the car up on a lift. Remove the left front tire. Have the person inside the car turn the steering wheel full left, then full right a couple of times. While you are looking the steering shaft through the wheel well. Pay attention to the joints on the steering shaft. Also look at the rack mounts too. If everything looks ok. You may have a bad rack. Is the problem worst in the morning when the car is cold? If it is worst in the morning or anytime it's cold. The rack has morning sickness. It's telling you that it's going bad. I've only heard of 2 racks going bad here on the forum.

Aviator44 · 03-09-2016, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by POS VETT

Do the buttons on the steering wheel work?

Yes.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rusty

Have someone sit in the car. Put the car up on a lift. Remove the left front tire. Have the person inside the car turn the steering wheel full left, then full right a couple of times. While you are looking the steering shaft through the wheel well. Pay attention to the joints on the steering shaft. Also look at the rack mounts too. If everything looks ok. You may have a bad rack. Is the problem worst in the morning when the car is cold? If it is worst in the morning or anytime it's cold. The rack has morning sickness. It's telling you that it's going bad. I've only heard of 2 racks going bad here on the forum.

It does seem to act up more when the cars cold. I'll put it back up on the lift and check things out. It's just weird that it didn't have this issue until right after the turbo kit install. Thanks!

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Rusty Ronin Samurai - Assassin Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Fayettenam,Pennsyltucky Age: 68 Posts: 35,321 Drives: 2011 Nismo GM 6M Rep Power: 2684438	Have someone sit in the car. Put the car up on a lift. Remove the left front tire. Have the person inside the car turn the steering wheel full left, then full right a couple of times. While you are looking the steering shaft through the wheel well. Pay attention to the joints on the steering shaft. Also look at the rack mounts too. If everything looks ok. You may have a bad rack. Is the problem worst in the morning when the car is cold? If it is worst in the morning or anytime it's cold. The rack has morning sickness. It's telling you that it's going bad. I've only heard of 2 racks going bad here on the forum. __________________ 浪人 - 殺し屋 "The Difficult Anytime, The Impossible By Appointment Only" http://www.the370z.com/members-370z-...o-journal.html Last edited by Rusty; 03-08-2016 at 07:32 PM.

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